Early Years Playground Design
Transform your outdoor space into an enriching learning environment that supports children’s natural curiosity and development across all seven areas of the EYFS framework.
A well-designed playground can become an extension of the classroom. With carefully selected equipment and play zoning, your school playground can offer a range of opportunities for holistic development. Our designs integrate natural elements of the outdoors with engaging and exciting play spaces to create engaging environments that support outdoor learning year-round.
Key Design Principles
- Safe yet challenging opportunities.
- Quiet spaces for reflection.
- Flexible, adaptable areas.
- Natural environmental elements.
- Universal accessibility.
- Clear supervision sightlines.
Play Equipment & resources
Develops gross motor skills, balance, and coordination
Collaborative play spaces and social interaction zones designed specially for the physical needs and development of young children.
Free Standing Trim Trail
Free-standing trim trails provide a flexible way for school children to develop physically, socially, and emotionally.
By combining physical challenges with opportunities for creativity, teamwork, and independent exploration, trim trails promote overall well-being and skill development. They encourage children to take risks, build confidence, and engage in active, imaginative play. These are key principles of development that contribute to your students becoming healthier, more resilient, and more focused learners.
Mini Trim Trail
Trim trails have been traditional playground equipment investments for school playgrounds for over 30 years. Our timber trim trail range provides children with exciting physical challenges that are safe and targeted to different stages of development.
Consisting of exciting equipment installed in a flowing playground design, a trim trail gets your students active. Children can explore the trails at their own pace to experience a range of balancing, climbing, and swinging activities.
Case Study - St Michael's Coe Academy
This Warwickshire primary school was looking to replace their existing play space with an active open space for their younger students.
We developed an early years Trim Trail specifically for this project, perfect for younger children. The staff, and most importantly, the children, love their new play space!
Sensory Play
Creative and interactive equipment to enhance sensory exploration and cognitive development for all children of all ages and abilities.
Musical Play
Musical Play has a hugely positive effect on young and developing minds. Noise-making in the great outdoors brings children the feeling of freedom, creativity, and sensory-stimulation that are incredibly beneficial to healthy development.
Our wide-ranging and accessible outdoor musical play equipment instruments are a unique, innovative addition to any school playground.
Water Wall
Transform your playground into a water wonderland with our Free-Standing Water wall!
This sensory feature includes a magnetic back panel, a high-quality water pump, and cleverly engineered water channels that bring the water wall to life. Designed for children to have fun together, socialising, and experimenting with water for a unique sensory experience.
Play Panels
Our range of Play Panels for playgrounds in Schools and Nurseries brighten up any playground. They add a range of sensory play values for your students to enjoy, including sensory -stimulation, imagination, and socialisation.
Manufactured from long-lasting HDPE, we can easily attach these panels to walls, posts, or your own structure.
Case Study - Enstone Primary School
This school chose our team to help them develop an unused space into a forest school area they could utilise for outdoor learning and create opportunities for social, sensory, and elemental play.
Their students now enjoy a range of seating areas, a musical play arch, and interactive, sensory play panels.
Outdoor Space
Creative Play
Shape your outdoor EYFS learning and play areas into environments that encourage imagination and creativity.
Reading Huts
A new addition to our outdoor classroom arsenal, our square school reading huts for schools are the ideal outdoor cover for early years playground quiet spaces. These are perfect for small groups to work together and play.
These wooden outdoor cabins include bench seating, options for panelling designs, and a waterproof reading canopy roof to keep young learners dry and safe. Therefore, your outdoor classroom reading huts are fully customisable.
Mud Kitchens
Mud Kitchens are the perfect addition to any outdoor play space with special appeal for younger children.
Messy play areas like mud kitchens offer endless opportunities for children to develop fine motor skills, enhance their understanding of materials, and ignite their imaginations through creative play. Whether they’re making mud pies or potions, children can explore and learn while having fun in nature.
Role Play Back Drops
From a bustling police station to a busy farm, each scene is designed to create an immersive, hands-on learning experience.
Whether indoors or outdoors, let your students step into a world of adventure and learning! By combining scenes, children can play together to tell stories and engage in create role-play activities.
Mark Making Bundle
A whiteboard, chalkboard, and painting Window on Wheels is a brilliant, flexible feature for any EYFS outdoor area!
Its versatility allows for dynamic use, enabling children of different age groups to engage in activities simultaneously. This equipment also gives teachers the freedom to adapt the space for various play and learning scenarios.
Case Study - Stretton Coe academy
This school wanted a space where children could be creative and where they could explore all areas of learning.
We opened up the once cramped, unloved play area into a fantastic play space with different zones for the children to enjoy in the Warwickshire Academy Primary School.
Natural Play
Wooden equipment that connects children with nature and the environment in the great outdoors.
Playground Planter
Bring nature into your playground with our high-quality wooden Playground Planter for flower beds and school gardens.
Designed to inspire outdoor fun, creativity, and learning, these planters are suitable for children of all ages. This versatile planter is perfect for encouraging kids to engage with the environment in a hands-on way.
Bug Hotel
The Bug Hotel is a delightful way to engage children with the wonders of nature! It provides a hands-on opportunity for young explorers to discover the vital role wildlife plays in our ecosystems.
By inviting creatures into this unique habitat, you’re not just creating a home for insects but nurturing curiosity, respect, and a lifelong connection to the natural world.
Early Years Playground Surfacing
Incorporating the perfect new surface for your School playground can take your project to the next level. Not only are our range of colourful playground surfacing visually stunning, but they also make your playground safer with superior shock absorption.
Artificial Grass
Quality artificial grass playground surfacing is becoming more and more popular in Primary Schools, Academies, and Nurseries.
Our range of specially developed playground grass has the appearance of real grass, with all the benefits of a synthetic playground surface.
Wet Pour Surfacing
Wetpour playground surfacing is one of the most popular choices of playground safety flooring in our range.
Often referred to as rubberised tarmac, we mix this on site using EPDM granules and a high strength binder. Once the soft surfacing is laid, it cures to form a strong impact absorbing surface.
Rubber Mulch
Resin Bound Rubber Mulch Playground Surfacing is a popular safety surface in Primary Schools and Academies.
If your school is looking to achieve a natural look and appearance without the usual maintenance issues, this choice is perfect for you.
Work with us
Contact us today to arrange an appointment and start your playground project.